Written Answers Monday 31 March 2008

Scottish Executive

Legislation

George Foulkes (Lothians) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many bills have been (a) published and (b) introduced since May 2007; how many bills it plans to (i) publish and (ii) introduce in 2008, and how this compares with equivalent figures for (A) four and (B) eight years ago.

Bruce Crawford: As announced by the First Minister in his statement to Parliament on 5 September 2007, the Scottish Government aims to introduce 11 bills in the 2007-08 legislative year. Six bills have since been introduced and work is on-going to introduce the remaining bills from this year’s programme.

  A total of eight bills were introduced in the legislative year 1999-2000, and 13 bills were introduced in 2003-04.